低冠蜥屬

低冠蜥屬Brachylophus),又名斐濟鬣蜥屬,是南太平洋斐濟湯加特有的一蜥蜴

低冠蜥属
斐濟帶紋鬣蜥
科学分类 编辑
界: 动物界 Animalia
门: 脊索动物门 Chordata
纲: Reptilia
目: 有鳞目 Squamata
亚目: 鬣蜥亞目 Iguania
科: 飛蜥科 Agamidae
属: 低冠蜥属 Brachylophus
Cuvier, 1829

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分類

低冠蜥屬的冠很短,由冠沿背部長滿棘。牠們與世界上其他的美洲鬣蜥科分隔開來。相信牠們是演化自於1300萬年前由南美洲跨越太平洋到來的綠鬣蜥[1]現存的物種如下:

  • Brachylophus bulabula Fisher, Harlow, Edwards & Keogh, 2008:於斐濟中部發現,經基因及形態分析後確定是新的物種[2]
  • 斐濟帶紋鬣蜥 Brachylophus fasciatus (Brongniart, 1800)
  • Brachylophus gau Fisher, Niukula, Watling & Harlow, 2017[3]
  • 斐濟冠狀鬣蜥 Brachylophus vitiensis Gibbons, 1981

另外,在湯加利夫卡島湯加塔布市發現了一種史前但已滅絕的巨型低冠蜥屬,其體型有如岩鬣蜥屬,估計是被人類及所馴養的動物迫害而消失。[4]

參考

  1. Cogger, Harold. . Australia Natural History. 1974, 18 (4): 144–9.
  2. . Fiji: Associated Press. 2008-09-19 [2008-10-06].
  3. Robert N. Fisher, Jone Niukula, Dick Watling and Peter S. Harlow. 2017. A New Species of Iguana Brachylophus Cuvier 1829 (Sauria: Iguania: Iguanidae) from Gau Island, Fiji Islands. Zootaxa. 4273(3); 407–422. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4273.3.5
  4. Pregill, Gregory K.; Dye, Tom. . Copeia (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists). 1989, 1989 (2): 505–8. doi:10.2307/1445455.
  • Frost, D.E. & Etheridge, R.E. (1989) A Phylogenetic Analysis and Taxonomy of Iguanian Lizards (Reptilia: Squamata). University of Kansas Museum of Natural History Miscellaneous Publications 81: 1-65.
  • Frost, D.R.; Etheridge, R.E.; Janies, D. & Titus, T.A. (2001): Total evidence, sequence alignment, evolution of Polychrotid lizards, and a reclassification of the Iguania (Squamata: Iguania). American Museum Novitates 3343: 1-38. PDF fulltext页面存档备份,存于

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